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FROM MY PORT-FOLIO, 
A TRIPLET OF SIMILITUDES, 
(Communicated. ) 
I. i 
TN a& 4. fcene I. of “* Meafure for 
wi Meafure,” *Shakfpeare has inferted' 
. the firft ftanza of a very beautiful fon- 
net, which Mr. Malone has publifhed 
entire in ‘¢ The Paffonate Pilgrim.” (See 
Malone’s Shakfpeare, vol. x. p. 340.) 
‘The fonnet is well known, but it takes 
little room, and had better be tranferibed 
for the more eafy comparifon of it with 
fome lyric lines of Gallus, a poet of the 
Auguitan age. : 
Take, oh take thofe lips away, 
, That fo fweetly were forfworn ; 
~ find thofe eyes, the break of day, 
Lights that do miflead the morn $ 
But my kiffes bring again, 
Seals of fove, but feal’d in vain, 
Gide, ob, hide thofe hills of fnhow, 
Which thy frozen bofom bears, — 
On whofe tops the pinks that grow 
Are of thofe that April wears ; 
But firf&t fet my poor heart free, 
Bound in thofe icy chains by thee. 
- In an edition of Catullus, Tibullus, 
. Propertius, and the fragments of Gallus, 
publifhed at Venice about two hundred 
years ago, in 1553, are the following 
limes, to which is prefixed this caution: 
s‘ Seguens Lyricum quia a plerifque Cor. 
Gallo attribuitur, bic adijcere hbuit.” 
Lidia bella puella, candida, 
~~ Que bene fuperas lac, et lilium, 
Albamq; fimul rofam rubidam, © 
Aut expolitum ebur Indicum. 
Pande puella, pande capillulos 
. Flavos, lucentes ut auruny nitidum. 
Pande puella collum candidum, 
Produétum bene candidis humeris. 
Pande puella ftellatos oculos, 
_ Flexaq; fuper nigra cilia. ’ 
Pande puella genas rofeas, 
Perfulasrubro purpure Tyrie. 
Porrige labra, labra corrailina, 
Da columbetim mitia bafia : 
Sugis amentis partem animi: 
., Gor mihi penetrant hec tua bafia. 
- Suid mihi fugis vivum fanguinem ? 
«onde papillas, conde gemipomas, 
‘Comprefiela&e que modo pullulant. 
‘Sinus expanfa profert cinnama : 
-.Vndique furgunt ex te deliciz. 
Conde papillas, que me fauciant 
Candere, et luvy nivei peftoris. 
-.. | Szeva non cernis quod ego langueo ? 
sis medeftituis iam femimortuvm ? 
ah 
When Milton wrote the morning 
hymn of Adam and Eve, (fee “* Paradye 
Lof?,’ book v.. line 153,) beginning, 
sé Thefe are thy glorious works, &c.”* 
he feerns to have had in view that fublime 
canticle in the morning fervice of the 
church of England, beginning with, 
<< © all ye works of the. Lord, blefs ye 
the Lord : praife him and magnify him 
for ever.” Any one who will take the 
trouble of comparing the paflages will 
be ftruck with their fimilitude. 
sie oi Lids 
The figns of love which Mrs, Bar- 
bauld: has enumerated in her beautiful 
little fong, ‘* Come here, fond youth, 
whoe’er thou be,”? &c. if they are not 
an imitation of Shakefpeare, at leaft 
very ftrongly remind us of the dialogue 
between Silvius, Phebe, Rofalind, and 
Orlando, inact 5, {cene I]. of “ As you 
like it.’ The paflage begins, ** Geod 
fhepherd, tell this youth what “tis ta 
love.:: 

Kine JAMES THE SIxTH’s COUNTER= 
“\BLAST TO TOBACCO, 
( Communicated.) 
rT IEE ufe of Topacco had heen in- 
troduced into England, I think by 
Sir Walter Raleigh, ‘not long before 
James’s acceffion to the Englifh throne, 
James hating Raleigh, and probably dif- 
liking the {mell of ToBacco, refolved 
to write this herb out of fafhion, fince 
he could not otherwife perfuade his cour- 
tiers to forbear the ufe of it. For this 
end he compofed that precious morfel of 
wifdom and eloquence, his COUNTER- 
BLAST TO TOBACCO. | 
- In this treatife he inveiohs again TO- 
BACCO; as having been borrowed from 
a favage people, from whom had been 
alfo caught the infection of an obfcene 
and peculiarly loathfome difeafe; aa 
tending rather to dry and heat the brain 
in a degree prejudicial to health, than 
merely, as was fuppofed, to evaporate 
iis exceis of moifture; as owing its ge- . 
neral reception merely to the caprice of 
fafhion, and to the weaknefs of thofe 
filly-minded people who are ever apt to 
think any thing good that is new and 
ftrange; as never having effeéted any. 
cures of difeafe, that could be undeniably 
afcribed to it alone; as being an article _ 
of vain luxury, the ufe of which was — 
pernicious to manly virtue, as being im 
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